Come Into A Fandom Late. Leave Early. Write 100 Fics. Write 1. Write None. Read Every Single Fic Written

firefox just started doing this too so remember kids if you want to stream things like netflix or hulu over discord without the video being blacked out you just have to disable hardware acceleration in your browser settings!

Alternate article for enabling gpedit.msc (for windows 10 and 11 home) I found it more straight forward.

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.

there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.

there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.

doing nothing is good for my soul.

i am not defined by what i produce.

my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.

i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.

i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.

When people look at abstract art and go "uh I could make that"

Fuck, I wish you would!

I wish you would let this inspire you. I wish that seeing a piece of abstract art would move you to self expression.

I wish you would go to the craft store, buy a cheap canvas and some cheap paint and let yourself play with color and form just to see if you can.

I wish that there were more amateur painters, trying their hand at geometric abstraction and color field painting. That would be so fucking cool.

"I could make that" should be a joyous revelation, not a snarky dismissal.

You could make that? Holy shit. please. Please make that.

Jack Bush

Kenneth Noland

Piet Mondraine

Pat Lipsky

Joan Mitchell

Helen Frankenthaler

Kikuo Saito

Marilyn Kirsch

Mark Rothko

Adolph Gottlieb

The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“

Also a lot of people dont say interstate or highway they just call it the number/letters (I10= interstate 10, US 95= US highway 95, 244= state highway/freeway 244, route 66= US route 66).

Another thing is State routes sometimes are just normal roads in town and as you get out of town morph into a highway as you get out of city limits.

I good way to get your characters lost is have a bridge outage and have them try to find another way without looking at a map. This happened to my Family once, the bridge to cross the Mississippi near Baton Rouge Louisiana had a chemical spill and they were forcing everyone off, but hadn't put up the detour signs yet, we decided to go south after getting off and ended up in residential swamp land. The atlas (big map book) had nothing, Garmin had no idea where we were and we keep turning down streets and hitting dead ends. We couldn't even find our way back to the Main streets I don't even remember how long it took us to try Google maps which finally included the streets we were on (this was like 10 years ago, which is why we didnt think of that sooner).

Writing fanfic as a non-US citizen like

Tbh I think fandom generally needs to get better at sitting with the uncomfortable fact that a story/fanwork/meme/whatever can hurt one person and help another